It's official: the Palm Pre Runs Doom

A fellow by the name of Sargun has gotten the legendary first-person-shooter Doom up and running on the Palm Pre using the open source PRDoom.

And you thought the iPhone was legit now. Palm--indirectly--can now claim hardcore gaming credit, now that a fellow by the name of Sargun has gotten the legendary first-person-shooter Doom up and running on the Palm Pre using the open source PRDoom, according to Engadget.

The report said that Sargun re-built the game to use the DirectFB graphics library, which then sends everything to the Pre's framebuffer, saying that it was "actually fairly trivial."

John Romero and John Carmack originally coded Doom almost entirely in C back in the early 1990s for exactly this reason: the ability to port the game easily from platform to platform. This was ahead of the landmark game's fateful release on December 10, 1993, when yours truly was logged into the FTP server trying to download the damn thing. Good times, good times.

Read more on the hack, or watch a (very short) video of the Palm Pre running doom after the break.